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Staff receiving updates to Teams at different time periods?
We're starting to roll out Teams across our business and we're finding that users are not receiving their automatic updates all at once. For example, the recent update to Teams which introduced t...
- Hi Toby McDaid,
The following article outlines the updates to Microsoft Teams clients
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/teams-client-update
It is pretty obscure outside of the fact it updates automatically or that users can trigger the update process through the client (via the menu). In most cases, I find the experience to be similar to yours - it can be sporadic so it's worth ensuring that users manually update their Teams client periodically. The web version (teams.microsoft.com) updates automatically and the mobile through the regular store updates which depend on the phone settings.
Good to know that Microsoft are working on the ability to let admins manage updates to the Teams client for their users - hopefully this will ultimately fix this kind of issue
https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/18738943-let-admins-manage-updates
I have voted on it, and would recommend you do too as when it is completed it will notify you.
Hope that answers your question
Best, Chris
ChrisHoardMVP There is nothing you can or should change about the process, it's controlled by Microsoft. If they did allow some admin control then people would opt out, defer etc. Microsoft would have to develop knowing the client could be any one of hundreds of different versions, making testing expensive and slow. All in everything would grind to a snails pace. Instead they use a similar process to Chrome, Spotify and dozens of other consumer apps.
The updates are performed using Squirrel, which is open source and documented here -> https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/blob/develop/docs/readme.md
Steven Collier. I personally disagree, and the fact that Microsoft are currently working on it per the uservoice would mean that they have either recognized this, or been given significant feedback that this is an issue for some organisations.
But I think you make great arguments for keeping the current course, and I respect your position. For me, there are pro's and con's of both ways.
Thanks for providing the link! Will take a look!
Have a good one! Hope to meet you at Ignite!
Best, Chris
But I think you make great arguments for keeping the current course, and I respect your position. For me, there are pro's and con's of both ways.
Thanks for providing the link! Will take a look!
Have a good one! Hope to meet you at Ignite!
Best, Chris